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It is worthless because it doesn't address the issue of How the money is going to be pay back when most of the nations involved lack fiscal
responsibility to begin with, and the debt of the nations involved is just getting bigger and bigger.

Once investors realized that is not means for the loans to be pay back the euphoria ebbs.

Then is another question to be answered, where does the bailout money will end, which rats will be benefiting

Shortly after 2:15 p.m. Eastern time last Thursday, hedge fund Universa Investments LP placed a big bet in the Chicago options trading pits
that stocks would continue their sharp declines.

On any other day, this $7.5 million trade for 50,000 options contracts might have briefly hurt stock prices, though not caused much of a ripple. But
coming on a day when all varieties of financial markets were deeply unsettled, the trade may have played a key role in the stock-market collapse just
20 minutes later.

The trade by Universa, a hedge fund advised by Nassim Taleb, author of "Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable," led traders on the other
side of the transaction—including Barclays Capital, the brokerage arm of British bank Barclays PLC—to do their own selling to offset some of the
risk, according to traders in Chicago.

Then, as the market fell, those declines are likely to have forced even more "hedging" sales, creating a tsunami of pressure that spread to nearly
all parts of the market.

S&P downgraded Spain’s long-term credit rating on April 28 to AA with a negative outlook, due, in part, to its government debts totaling 59.2
percent of GDP. In contrast, the United States government and its agencies have total debts equal to 94.7 percent of GDP, or nearly 60 percent more
than Spain’s.
S&P downgraded Portugal’s long-term credit rating on April 27 by two notches, from A+ to A-, citing the risk of a further downgrade should fiscal
consolidation fall short of expectations or should concerns over government liquidity mount. However, in proportion to its economy, Portugal’s
current federal deficit is actually smaller than ours — 8.3 percent of GDP compared to the U.S. deficit at 10.6 percent of GDP.
Greece, at the heart of the crisis, has been downgraded by all three rating agencies. But even compared to Greece, America’s deficit/GDP level is
only slightly less bad — 10.6 percent in the U.S. vs. 12.2 percent in Greece.

LONDON, May 11 (Reuters) - Britain's top share index was lower around midday on Tuesday as enthusiasm over the euro zone's $1 trillion
rescue package wore off, and with lingering political uncertainty weighing on sentiment.

By 1128 GMT, the FTSE 100 .FTSE index was down 92.18 points, or 1.7 percent, at 5,295.24, pulling back after a 5.2 percent leap on Monday -- its
biggest one-day percentage gain in almost 18 months.

Good morning my friends, you are all the best group of ATS members ever I look forward everyday to this forum for its great post.

How bad are the global Market and the incoming default nations? well when 1 trillion bailout is still making the Euro and the Markets unstable
that should be a sign of things to come. . .

Then again, does anybody knows exactly how much is going to take to bailout the entire world?.

Exactly how much money is in the red right now?

Still nobody is talking about what China is doing, China is protecting their own and becoming more protectionist than ever, they are doing
preparations for an incoming downfall and making sure that they come out on top with the least loses.

Then again Is the US and the Euro with Canada trailing the leaders of the NWO?

I went back to this post, and I want to say that California is going to get a bailout by the government to keep the union workers in their jobs at
the expenses of tax payer, I even made a thread on the issue.

Yes is a bill in congress to bailout California high pay jobs recipients, from 100 thousand to 200 thousand earners, Mr. Obama owed this to them and
Union workers were one of the sectors that help his campaign.

Latest Jobs Bill: Help for Unions, Government Employees, and More, the Local Jobs for America Act, H.R. 4812.

As I Warned Yesterday, It Appears the Market Is Calling the Europeans Bluff – It’s Now Put Up Or Get Put Down www.zerohedge.com...

Yesterday I commented on the folly of promising big money to throw at a myriad variety of highly indebted nation without a central authority to
enforce the structural change needed to actually cure the problems that created the need for the monies in the first place. See The EU Has Set Up An
Oppurtunistic Entry Point for Shorts Instead of Expressly Offering a Solution to the Pan-European Sovereign Debt Crisis! and What We Know About the
Pan European Bailout Thus Far. The primary flaw, by far, that I perceive in this most grand of grand bailout schemes is that it is just that – a
bailout, not a solution. Methinks the market is about to call the EU on their bluff pretty much along the same lines that I espoused above. For those
subscribers who follow my belief that the ECB and EU leaders are making one of the largest policy blunders of modern times, this may be an opportunity
to set up a short position that makes the Lehman Brothers’ debacle look like a day rally. All subscribers are welcome to download our latest File
Icon Euro Bank Sovereign Debt Exposure Preview. A more verbose summary will be released for pro and institutional subscribers shortly. Reference the
following articles in this early morning edition of Bloomberg:

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